by Noel | Mar 27, 2008 | Gardening
Sweet potatoes are considered one of the best foods available. They probably contain a better all-around mix of useful nutrition than any other food that one can grow in the garden. Sweet potatoes are associated with Latin America and the southern US, but they are quite easy to grow in Wisconsin and actually have been an important commercial crop here for many years. For northern gardeners, the best results seem to be achieved by growing the potatoes under a mulch...
by Geoff | Mar 27, 2008 | Gardening
As I mentioned in my last post I have a new place in Austin. I am just now starting the vegetable garden. (Yes, late for Austin, but I have been on the road promoting the CobraHead for the last couple of months.) The only photo in this post is the before shot. We have to put a small fence around the yard as our dogs, Zaney and Sweet Pea, are notorious diggers among other things. The dogs’ love of rotten vegetables required me to fence in the compost pile as...
by Geoff | Jan 14, 2008 | Gardening
This morning the lid on the compost bucket in the kitchen would no longer close, so it was time to make the first compost pile at my new home. Unlike my dad, Noel, I prefer to build my compost in layers first with materials high in carbon, then a nitrogen layer, followed by a cap of soil, repeating the process until the pile gets to be three to four feet high. I have to mention here that I learned a large part of what I know about composting from my gardening...
by Judy | Jan 4, 2008 | Gardening
I say shal-uht, he says shuh-lot. When Geoff started talking about shuh-lots one day I crinkled my eyebrows. Isn’t that what mothers do when they’re perplexed? I wasn’t really perplexed but I had always said shal-uhts. So when I decided to write about our garden shallots I figured I should check out the pronunciation and definition. It seems that both pronunciations are correct. Most online dictionary sources indicate shal-uht as the first choice...
by Geoff | Dec 17, 2007 | Environmental Issues, Gardening
Compost is integral to sustainable gardening practices. It is also a great way to get rid of kitchen waste without putting stuff into the trash stream. We’ve been composting for as long as we’ve been gardening and our system now is a pretty automatic routine. All compostable kitchen waste is stored in a 2 1/2 gallon plastic bucket under the sink. Since we don’t eat any meat at home, most of our organic scrap waste goes into the compost bucket....
by Noel | Nov 29, 2007 | CobraHead, Gardening
Our blog was launched to help us sell our CobraHead garden tool products. The Internet may prove to be the ideal tool for small businesses to let the world know they are out there without having to spend millions of dollars in advertising like the big corporations do. We are a really tiny entity, but with a website, a blog, an e-newsletter, and e-mail, we hope to reach lots of people. We recently sent out our first e-newsletter, which only went to our list of...
